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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.
John Muir
To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
John Muir
The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.
John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
Come to the woods, for here is rest.
John Muir
No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.
John Muir
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
John Muir
A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: You will die before you can do anything else.
John Muir
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
John Muir
...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
John Muir
See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required only a calm day and a calm mind.
John Muir
One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made that this is still the morning of creation that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.
John Muir
Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
John Muir
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John Muir
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
John Muir
I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.
John Muir
To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.
John Muir
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
John Muir
I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?
John Muir
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.
John Muir